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What Matters Most On Tuesday, September 18, 2018

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Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) attends the inauguration ceremony for Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyaninin on September 18, 2018. (AFP/Sputnik/Alexey Filippov)

'It looks like a chain of tragic accidental circumstances'

Putin says Israel did not shoot down Russian plane, calls it a tragic accident

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Moscow had blamed Israel after Syria hit Russian spy plane, with 15 on board, while trying to fend off IAF attack; Kremlin says Putin will speak to Netanyahu shortly

An Israeli Air Force F-16C takes off during the Blue Flag air exercise at the Ovda air force base, north of the Israeli city of Eilat, on November 8, 2017. (Jack Guez/AFP)

In rare move, IDF admits Syria strike, expresses sorrow over Russian plane

By Judah Ari Gross

An Ilyushin Il-20M reconnaissance plane takes off at Kubinka air force base near Moscow, Russia, on February 19, 2014. (Artyom Anikeev/iStock/Getty Images)

Russia blames Israel after Syria downs plane while trying to repel attack

By Judah Ari Gross, ToI Staff and Agencies

Analysis

Avi Issacharoff

Raised Israel-Russia tension is not the only troubling aspect of strike in Syria

The Latakia area is normally considered off-limits by Israel. The target of Monday’s attack there, which led to Syria’s downing of a Russian plane, must have been highly important

Syrian President Bashar Assad inspects the Russian Hmeimim air base in the province of Latakia, Syria, June 27, 2017 (Syrian Presidency via AP, File)

Illustrative: Russian police guard outside the Israeli embassy in Moscow, on September 18, 2018. (AFP/Vasily Maximov)

Russia summons Israeli envoy after warning of response over downed plane

By Judah Ari Gross, ToI Staff and Agencies

Hila Peretz, a falafel shop worker, on September 17, 2018 says Ari Fuld saved her life in a terror attack at the Gush Etzion junction a day earlier. (screen capture: Channel 10)

Fatally wounded, Ari Fuld prevented terrorist from stabbing falafel shop worker

Security footage shows Efrat resident, blood streaming down his back, chasing and shooting Khalil Jabarin, saving Hila Peretz

PA daily reports Israel shot, arrested ‘child’ over ‘claim’ he killed Ari Fuld

Drivers of terrorists who killed border cop in Jerusalem get early release

Five arrested as police scuffle with Muslim activists on Temple Mount

Romanian Jews, seen through a glass door, attend a religious service ahead of the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, at the Great Synagogue in Bucharest, Romania, September 13, 2013. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru/Mediafax)

Analysis

Amanda Borschel-Dan

How the haunting Kol Nidre melody harnessed the power to convert

The ancient Ashkenazi musical setting of Aramaic vow renunciation has shocked and transformed thinkers from Heine, Herzl and Rosenzweig to non-Jewish artists and intellectuals

Thousands pray for forgiveness (Selichot) at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem on September 16, 2018. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Thousands gather at Western Wall ahead of Yom Kippur

Ultra-Orthodox Jews perform the kaparot ritual on September 16, 2018, in the ultra-
Orthodox neighborhood of Mea Shearim, in Jerusalem. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Chicken-swinging ritual endures despite animal welfare concerns

By AFP and ToI Staff

From left: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trayon White Sr., Joy Reid and Roseanne Barr. (JTA Collage/Getty Images/GPO)

Who’s sorry now: The top 10 apologies of the Jewish year

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

From Benjamin Netanyahu to Roseanne Barr begging forgiveness, these episodes represent a range of key themes that dominated the news in the Jewish year 5778

Israeli troops fire a cannon from a position on the Golan Heights during the Yom Kippur War, on October 11, 1973. (Radovan Zeev/Bamahane/Defense Ministry Archives)

Israel media reviewAtonement: 6 things to know for September 18

By Adiv Sterman

Ronald Lauder in Leipzig, Germany, Aug. 30, 2010 (Sean Gallup/Getty Images, via JTA)

Abbas says mogul Lauder floated backchannel to Netanyahu

Palestinian leader tells former MKs he agreed to the idea, but it never went anywhere; PA official says Abbas conditioned such talks on a settlement freeze

IDF denies abuse allegations after arrested Palestinian suspect dies

By Adam Rasgon and Judah Ari Gross

Gaza says 2 killed in Monday night airstrike near border

By Agencies and Judah Ari Gross

Balloon carrying grenade found in field at kibbutz near Gaza border

Rachel Brosnahan accepts the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series award for 'The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel' onstage during the 70th Emmy Awards at Microsoft Theater on September 17, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images/AFP)

Jewish dramedy ‘Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ triumphs at Emmys

By AP

Amazon series about a bored 1950s housewife-turned-comedian nabs 5 awards, including outstanding comedy; 40 years after becoming the Fonz, Henry Winkler gets his first Emmy

University of Michigan Professor John Cheney-Lippold was recently disciplined by the school for refusing to write a letter of recommendation for a student who wanted to study in Israel. (YouTube Screen Capture)

Citing BDS, US prof. refuses to write reference for student to study in Israel

University of Michigan’s John Cheney-Lippold rescinds offer to write letter of recommendation after he realizes student wishes to spend a semester in Israel

University ‘disappointed’ after professor refuses student reference over BDS

By Eric Cortellessa and ToI Staff

Culture and Sports Minister Miri Regev attends a Culture, Sports and Education Committee meeting at the Knesset, July 2, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Regev demands defunding of Haifa film festival for screening ‘subversive’ movies

Reportedly taking offense over movie that depicts Arab-Jewish love affair, culture minister asks Treasury to act against government-backed bodies ‘which harm Israel, its values’

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked at a plenary session at the Knesset on September 17, 2018. (Flash90)

Opposition assails Shaked: ‘You’re preparing ground for axing of top judges’

By Raoul Wootliff

Journalist and political analyst Ksenia Svetlova, formerly an MK from the Zionist Union party. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Opposition lawmaker files request for emergency Knesset hearing on Keyes affair

By Raoul Wootliff

Shira Pasternak Be'eri

The lesson of my empty window

How a pigeon family encouraged me to change the way I take in the world

Bracha Goldstein

Shattered belief

I confessed my sins to God. I also took Him to task. That’s all over now.

Reflect, repent, but don’t berate yourself

Jewish holidays revolve around historical events, so why doesn’t Yom Kippur?

Guilt vs. Responsibility

Yom Kippur offers a unique legal paradigm in which individuals, communities and the State make an internal promise to be good

Levi Weiman-Kelman

Collective accountability and the sin of losing hope

Yom Kippur calls on us to reject unworthy leaders and rebuff those who only know how to strike fear in us

Are Jews white? Yom Kippur edition

What qualities would you look for to lead a nation? Obscene wealth? Sweeping ignorance? Tiny, tiny hands?

The move away from the Republican Party by Les Wexner, left, and Seth Klarman as the midterm elections near is being seen as greatly significant. (JTA Collage/Getty Images)

Analysis

The 2 US billionaires who love Israel but hate Trump

Seth Klarman and Les Wexner seem to signal a hawkish pro-Israel agenda doesn’t justify the damage they feel Trump is doing to America and its democratic institutions

Two Jewish billionaires pull support from GOP candidates, citing Trump

By JTA

US slashes number of refugees to 30,000 for next year

By SUSANNAH GEORGE

Netanyahu authorizes immigration of 1,000 Ethiopian Falashmura to Israel

Israeli soldiers at the Syrian ceasefire line in the Golan Heights are seen, October 31, 1973, after sudden cold, rain and fog hit them. Female soldier is radio operator Zehava Mizrachi. Other soldiers are unidentified. (AP Photo)

Reporter's notebook

The Yom Kippur War: When Israel’s Arabs didn’t rise up

By Abraham Rabinovich

More Headlines

Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May speaks at the United Jewish Israel Appeal charity dinner in London, Sept. 17, 2018. (Peter Nicholls/Pool via AP)

British PM: Nothing excuses anti-Semitism, Israel has right to self-defense

Aharon Leshno-Yaar (Courtesy / Foreign Ministry)

Envoy said to ask to be introduced as ‘Representative of Jewish State of Israel’

FILE - This Aug. 12, 2005 file photo shows organically grown strawberries for sale at a roadside stand in Watsonville, California (AP Photo/Rita Beamish, file)

Needle-in-strawberry sabotage scare spreads across Australia

FILE - This March 17, 2018, file photo, shows Democratic US Sen. Heidi Heitkamp in Grand Forks, North Dakota (AP Photo/James MacPherson, File)

RJC launches $1 million ad campaign against senator who backed Iran deal

By JTA

Argentina's former President Cristina Fernandez arrives to court in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sept. 3, 2018 (AP Photo/Sebastian Pani)

Ex-president Kirchner charged in Argentina corruption scandal

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses world leaders at the 72nd UN General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York on September 19, 2017. (AFP Photo/Timothy A. Clary)

Smart TVPM reportedly tried to swap speech slot at UN to hit Israeli prime time

Captain Or Naaman, who commanded the team that shot down a Syrian plane, in an interview broadcast on September 17, 2018. (Screen capture: Hadashot news)

IDF officer who shot down Syrian plane speaks of tension before missile launch

Protesters shout slogans as they gather in front of the Presidential Palace to show President Andrzej Duda their disapproval after he signed the latest legislation on the Supreme Court into law, in Warsaw, Poland July 26, 2018 (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)

Poland banned from European judicial body

By AFP

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